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Rennae Stubbs criticizes restrictions on Marketa Vondrousova during doping ban
Marketa Vondrousova is serving a four-year doping ban after refusing a test at her Prague home in December 2025.
The former Wimbledon champion is due to remain banned until June 2030, after a tribunal found no compelling reason to shorten the suspension.
The rules require her to share her whereabouts, provide a daily one-hour testing window and undergo regular tests, even though she cannot compete.
She also cannot train at her tennis club or attend tournaments, including events where her boyfriend plays.
Rennae Stubbs says the restrictions are excessive, although she also said Vondrousova handled the test refusal badly.
Stubbs, Serena Williams’ coach, said she does not believe Vondrousova used performance-enhancing drugs, while Vondrousova has said the ban affects her personal life as well as her career.
Rennae Stubbs criticized the restrictions placed on Marketa Vondrousova during her four-year doping ban.
Stubbs said Vondrousova had acted foolishly by refusing a doping test but called the conditions of her ban heavy-handed.
Vondrousova said she cannot train at her tennis club or attend tournaments to support friends and her boyfriend.
The Czech player was banned after refusing to let a doping control officer into her Prague home in December 2025.
- Who
- Marketa Vondrousova, a Czech tennis player, and Rennae Stubbs, a tennis coach and commentator.
- What
- Stubbs criticized restrictions imposed on Vondrousova during a four-year doping ban.
- When
- Stubbs’s comments were reported on October 20, 2026. The ban was announced in summer 2026.
- Where
- The doping-test refusal took place at Vondrousova’s home in Prague.
- Why
- Vondrousova was banned after refusing a doping test. Stubbs said the restrictions during the ban were excessive.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Vondrousova refused to let a doping control officer into her Prague home to conduct a test.
It was announced that Vondrousova would serve a ban until June 2030.
Tennis365 reported Stubbs’s criticism of the restrictions and Vondrousova’s account of life under the ban.
- Ban length
- Four years
- Ban end date
- June 2030
- Test refusal
- December 2025
- Location of test refusal
- Vondrousova’s home in Prague
- Daily testing window
- One hour
What people are saying
Straight up, she f***** up.
Do I think she is a performance enhancer? Absolutely not.
In my opinion, there could not be a person further away doing anything like that.
Something that’s completely normal for everyone else has suddenly become impossible for me.